Pathogens Webinar | Blood Parasites in Asia: Trends, Problems and Solutions
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9th Pathogens Webinar
Blood Parasites in Asia: Trends, Problems and Solutions
Blood parasites tremendously affect humans and animals causing morbidity, mortality, welfare issues and can be transmitted as zoonosis through arthropod vectors, which themselves create their own burden for millions of lives having huge social and economic impacts. Furthermore, multiple infections make diagnosis and treatments more challenging and many blood parasites have counter-reacted to host immune defense and attack mechanisms. Some parasites are developing resistance to drugs or evolved to mutate and survive in their host.
This webinar will be part of the launch of a Special Issue in the journal Pathogens https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pathogens/special_issues/blood_parasites
We hope to see many of you at this webinar.
Date: 10 June 2022
Time: 10:00am CEST | 5:00am EDT | 5:00pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 896 7460 6615
Webinar Secretariat: pathogens.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Olivier Sparagano
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR;
Prof. Olivier Sparagano received his BSc and MSc from the University of Paris VII, France, his MRes from the University Blaise Pascal, France, and his PhD from the Institut Pasteur and the University Lyon I, France.
Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he was the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Animal Health and Biotechnology at Coventry University, UK. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University, UK.
Olivier is a Chartered Biologist, a Fellow of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (of which he was the President several times), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and an Associate Member of the Royal Society for Chemistry. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and over 400 conference abstracts.
He has been working on animal diseases, zoonotic pathogens and vector-borne issues for over two decades.
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Organizer
On Friday, 10 June 2022, MDPI and the Pathogens Journal organized the 9th webinar on Pathogens, entitled " Blood Parasites in Asia: Trends, Problems and Solutions". “This Pathogens/MDPI webinar brought together world-known experts on schistosomiasis (Professor Lydia Leonardo from the Philippines), on trypanosomiasis (Professor Lee Willingham from UAE) or on tick-borne pathogens (Professor Olivier Sparagano from Hong Kong). The debate with the participants was very interactive and diverse touching upon methodologies related to diagnostics, vaccine development or field work and future trends in research activities highlighting that such webinar was very timely and an important topic with societal, economic and scientific impacts”.
The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Cells, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Olivier Sparagano, Dr. Nighat Perveen & Dr. Santosh Thapa
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2022